David Broder on set for an interview with R.W. Apple of The New York Times, then-moderator Chris Wallace, and then-Vice President George H.W. Bush. The Washington Post obituary of Broder characterized his tough questioning on the show: “On ‘Meet the Press’ in 1987, he probed whether then-Vice President George H.W. Bush, the GOP frontrunner in the next year's White House race, was too much an eastern patrician to understand average Americans.”